Awards, Scholarships, Grants, and Bursaries

OSSTF/FEESO Awards of Recognition for Members · The OSSTF/FEESO Protective Services Award (formerly The John McNeil Award)

Update

 
Services

The OSSTF/FEESO Protective Services Award (formerly The John McNeil Award)

The OSSTF/FEESO Protective Services Award was established in honour of John McNeil, a retired OSSTF/FEESO secretariat member who excelled in the area of collective bargaining and protection of members. The award recognized outstanding achievement in the area of collective bargaining by an OSSTF/FEESO member.  

Submitting an Application

The deadline for nominations is January 31 and must be submitted online by clicking on the Nomination Form link below:

The electronic form features file upload capability. You may submit attachments no larger than 20 MB. Each file should be no more than 3MB. If you submit your online form with attachments over 20 MB, you will arrive at a Page Not Found error. If your attachments are large, we recommend you email them to sandra.rahim@osstf.ca.

Nomination Form

Guidelines

Criteria

The recipient of the OSSTF/FEESO Protective Services Award will have demonstrated continued outstanding leadership locally in areas of protective services, such as, collective bargaining, member protection, LTD, benefits, grievance, arbitration and/or contract maintenance.

The efforts and commitment of the recipient will have benefited the local bargaining unit and its membership. The recipient will have demonstrated a commitment to professional development in the area of member protection.

Disclaimer

The Protective Services Committee will determine which, if any, applicant will receive the award based on the established criteria.  The Protective Services Committee reserves the right not to grant the award in any given year.

Nominations

Who may propose? Any active Member in OSSTF/FEESO.
Who is eligible? All active members of OSSTF/FEESO in good standing except for current members of the Protective Services Committee.
What is required? Provide concrete examples to support the nomination.
Where will the presentation occur? Protective Services Committee Conference.
How will winner be notified? The secretariat member attached to the award will make contact with the nominator prior to the award ceremony to get winner’s contact information. Only winning entries will be contacted..
Publicity OSSTF/FEESO will publicize the contributions of the award winner in its publications.
Previous Winners
2003 Ken Robbins D 08 Avon Maitland
2004 Sue Kaufman D 16 York Region
2005 David Brohman D 24 Waterloo
2006 John Callaghan D 10 Lambton Kent
2007 Norm Uhrig D 21 Hamilton – Wentworth
2008 Tom Downer D 07 Bluewater
2009 Ben Andrews D 17 Simcoe
2010 Kelly Morin Currie D 23 Grand Erie
2011 Jo Dean D 09 Greater Essex
2012 Award not bestowed  
2013 Rob Shaheen D 26 Upper Canada
2014 Award not bestowed  
2015 Andre Filion D 35 University of Ottawa
2016 Tracie Edward D 09 Greater Essex
2017 Sandy Stewart D 25 Ottawa – Carleton
2018 Award not bestowed  
2019 Jim Young D 20 Halton
2020 Joe Rooyakers D35 University of Guelph
2021 Jonathan Degan D 35 University of Ottawa
2022 Daniel McLean D 14 Kawartha Pine Ridge
  John Bernans D 11 Thames Valley
2023 John Mazara D 15 Trillium Lakelands
2024 Mason Reid D 18 Upper Grand

Related Links

Contact Information

OSSTF/FEESO

60 Mobile Dr.
Toronto, ON  M4A 2P3

Phone: 416-751-8300

Fax: 416-751-3394

Toll Free: 1-800-267-7867